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Model Canoe

20th century
20th C.
Melanesia, Solomon Islands, Ngganga (Florida Group)
54 in. x 13 in. x 5 1/4 in. (137.16 cm x 33.02 cm x 13.34 cm)

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Artist unknown

Medium: Wood with shell inlay embedded in parinarium-nut paste

Credit Line: Committee for Art Acquisitions Fund

Accession Number: 1998.130

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Provenance

Purchased by James Willis at Sotheby's, London, 26 November 1979, lot #103. Collected 1928

Bibliography

Journal of the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, I, 1998–1999, repr. p. 83; "La collection d'art tribal d'Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts de la Stanford University," Arts d'Afrique noire, Summer 1999, p. 43

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oceans
The main water areas of the earth, lying in basins; for shallow salt water areas lying on the margins of continents, use "seas." [March 1993 related term added.]

ocean
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